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Alchemical and chemical receipts, mostly translated from Hindi. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Alchemical and chemical receipts, mostly translated from Hindi.
- Date:
- c.1846
- Reference:
- MS.3597
- Part of:
- Monckton, Edward Henry Cradock (1812-1878)
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Description
Collection of alchemical, chemical and medical receipts translated from Hindustani. Compiler's holograph MS. On pale blue paper, many of the sheets having in the outer upper corner a small oval impressed stamp, lettered 'S.R.F. 1846'. Illustrated with a few rough pen-drawings of apparatus, etc. Many of the receipts and notes have the names of modern Hindustani authors written against them.
Publication/Creation
c.1846.
Physical description
88 ll. 4to. 201/2x16 cm. Original quarter-calf binding.
Acquisition note
Purchased 1920.
Finding aids
Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).
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Accession number
- 40339